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I'm quite happy to admit that I'm wrong, if that turns out to be the case. However, it still isn't clear from the article you link to whether it is just his character that is performance art, or the content. After all, he's not the only one on Infowars: there are plenty of other "reporters" broadcasting the same stories. As far as I know, none of them have admitted to being actors.
They seem to be taking the stories quite seriously, and don't seem to think it's just performance art. |
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Counterbalance in the little town of Ridgeview, Ohio. Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstitution, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread. Two others facing the future with confidence - having escaped one of the darker places of the Twilight Zone. |
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For me, one of the most repulsive displays during the custody battle was seeing him call on the media to respect his family during the trial. While I agree that his kids should be off limits to the media, the hypocricy of appealing for his family's privacy after he's **** on the graves of all those kids who died at Sandy Hook made me want to vomit, preferably in HIS mouth.
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Counterbalance in the little town of Ridgeview, Ohio. Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstitution, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread. Two others facing the future with confidence - having escaped one of the darker places of the Twilight Zone. |
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Colbert has been having a lot of fun with Alex Jones lately. Imitating him, and playing his clips. Based on the clips, I totally believe he is playing a character, they're just too over the top.
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#126 |
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He does it surprisingly well, Tuck Buckford is crazy, screaming, red in the face, all in that gruff voice.http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/...-jones-w477371
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Interestingly, (and possibly to argue against my own, earlier point), it looks like he believes that voting does actually have an effect, and that the results are not pre-planned. I thought the Evil They controlled the elections, and that, despite the secrecy and the murderous efforts to preserve said secrecy, Jonesy had access to these secret scripts?
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Now McMaster is the leak. Roger Stone is on top of this so you know it's legit.
https://www.infowars.com/breaking-mc...-house-leaker/ |
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Holy ****, that's twice in less than a year that he's backed off some CT BS. Has he finally hit the level of fame where he's no longer capable of saying whatever he wants, because he might actually attract enough attention to be held accountable?
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Maybe he is seeing a once in a lifetime opportunity for him: "coming across as less loony than the sitting US president".
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Although there is still a lot of pro Trump stuff on infowars,Jones himself has stopped the non stop worship of Trump. He is smart enough to see where this is going.
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Oh this is great during the early 9/11 Thermite theories Jones was being supported by Russian and Iranian trolls.
Did Trump take a page out of Jones's playbook? |
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2005-2008, Russian, Venezuelan, and Iranian Trolls, real people push Alex Jones and Steven E. Jones Thermite CD Bull on line.
2009-2015, thousands of People loose their Job as Bots take over and reduce cost of trolling for state actors Russa, Venezuela, and Iran. 2016 bots elect Trump president with fake News stories from Russian Propoganda site. 2017-2018 bots take over people terminated by brain sucking aliens, Donald Trump saves us all, no brain to suck aliens starve! Please donate to the save a troll fund the unemployed Trolls need your help they have children to feed just like you do. I need a cute gif, and a parody website now, every early debunker on the old Jerf 9/11 forum figured that out a long time ago I think. Conspiracy theories are not just crazy people the are a Propoganda tool, used to divid Democracy, to weaken and disrupt it. Good work Comrade Alex. |
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And now it looks like they've gotten (temporary) White House press credentials!
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Amazon continues to expand its empire, this time buying into the conspiracy genre:
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Jones is now sponsoring an anti-CNN meme contest:
https://www.infowars.com/20k-prize-i...est-announced/ Seems like a good idea and a sweet cash prize to the winner. |
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Jones has an encounter with an odd-looking fellow who pours some coffee on him. Denounces him as a literal goblin. Apparently that fellow is now owning it and making a thing of it.
The police have trolled Jones on twitter. |
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Wow,when a major police force trolls you things are getting bad.
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Yeah, it's almost 2 months old. But since I didn't see it here... |
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I listened to his show for months and cannot say I learned anything of use. In one show he even said they would probably lose against the elite. Why is he bothering then?
He claims to have 'white papers' that the gov are planning to turn people gay. You never see any of these papers on the web. Why would they admit their plans in papers that anyone can read? |
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"It's been admitted!" has been his major shtick for most of his career. He knows he can wave around a book and claim that it contains up front admissions of any nonsense he wants to spew, safe in the knowledge that none of his core audience will ever take the time to read the book and find out he's lying. He also knows that if anyone else tries to point that out, his audience will claim that the other person is some lying shill for the government. All things considered, it's been a good little earner for him. |
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Jones for a long time sort of shyed away from out and out bigotry,but now he has embraced it.
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I don't think he's lying consciously. He's twisting what these papers say. One example is that Bill Gates said he wanted to increase the plan for vaccinations to bring down the population numbers. They saw that literally. What Gates meant is that people who have kids die of disease tend to then keep on having more babies to compensate.
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#156 |
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You should spend some time on Icke's forum. Homophobes and racists. Some of them believe all child abuse is caused by Jews. You can say that kind of thing on there and the mods do nothing. I called a homophobe gay, and he is according to his own view on latent homosexuality, and I was banned for a month. They're always banning me.
Clearly conspiracy brings out demons in people. It gives them an allowance to take out their hates and fears and give them an air of respectability. |
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Apparently Jones is now crying that YouTube would delete Infowars account: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefi...fowars-channel
It furthermore seems that big US companies and brands have realized that their advertisements ended up on Infowars YouTube channel and are now questioning YouTube about how this was made possible: http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/03/tech...nes/index.html |
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He's not the only conspiracy hoaxer to have their channels deleted, Utube has deleted literally thousands of them in recent days (he is afaik only one more strike from losing the infowars channels)- so step up people, view his videos, find something thats reportable AND REPORT IT!!!
Lets get em gone for good! |
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#159 |
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Stupid Free Market.
Why don't companies let Alex Jones use their services for free, and in return he will taint their brand? |
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When youtube started it was so that people could broadcast videos of themselves falling over, their holidays, or their pets. I don't think they could have anticipated people treating like an unregulated free DIY TV channel where any poisonous tripe they care to concoct could be spewed world wide and treated as gospel by morons.
I am always wary of large corporations deciding what content is acceptable and what isn't, but equally I welcome a bit of social responsibility where youtube users don't seem able to exercise it themselves. |
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